Veteran Republican leaders Steve Duprey and Juliana Bergeron are asking state party activists for new terms representing New Hampshire on the Republican National Committee, posts in which the priority is to protect the New Hampshire primary presidential primary from frequent challenges to its first-in-the-nation status.

Members of the Republican State Committee will vote at their June 4 annual meeting, where they will also pick a party vice chairman and address proposed amendments to their bylaws.

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Current vice chairman Matt Mayberry on Monday night told WMUR.com that he will run for the post.

Bergeron announced her candidacy for a second term as Republican National Committeewoman shortly after the NHGOP announced the date of the annual meeting.

Duprey then told WMUR.com in an interview that he is seeking a third term.

No other Republican has yet stepped forward to challenge them. Those elected to the RNC on June 4 will serve four years, with their new terms beginning at the close of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July and lasting through the end of the 2020 convention.

Duprey, of Concord, is a former four-term state party chairman, serving from 1993 to 2001. He said the top responsibilities of Republican National Committee members from New Hampshire are to protect the leadoff status of the presidential primary, to ensure that the New Hampshire GOP “gets its share” of RNC funding and to work to elect Republicans in the state.

Duprey has successfully worked to fend off challenges to the primary for parts of three decades, including several years on the RNC Rules Committee.

He said that during his six years on the RNC, the New Hampshire GOP has received more financial support from the national committee than in any previous period and has received more in RNC funding than any other New England state.

“I think my advocacy and my seniority and the fact that I take on impossible, thankless jobs like the convention site selection committee (which he chaired) and the debate committee (which he served on) builds respect with other members of the national committee,” he said.

Duprey said he has also been active in the RNC “Growth and Opportunity” program that invested funds in modernizing the national party’s voter data base, its voter contact program and providing staffing to the state parties, even during years in which no election is held.

He also noted that he has a strong relationship with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.

Duprey has been the chairman of campaign finance committees for Sen. Kelly Ayotte, former governors Steve Merrill and Craig Benson, former Sen. Bob Smith, and former U.S. Reps. Chuck Douglas, Bill Zeliff and Charlie Bass. He has also raised funds for the state Senate and House GOP political action committees.

Bergeron, of Keene, said she has also helped to “fight off numerous attempts to take away our first-in-the-nation primary,” to increase RNC funding for the state GOP and to raise funds for Republican candidates.

She has been the finance chair of the NHGOP since September and said that as a grassroots activist for more than 40 years, she has volunteered on every presidential campaign since 1972. She is a former chair of the Cheshire County Republican Committee.

The party on June 4 will also hold an election for the post of party vice chair. Current vice chair Mayberry was appointed last June by the party executive committee after Bryan Gould resigned amid turmoil over U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta’s campaign finance violations and settlement with the Federal Election Commission.

The person elected vice chair in June will serve until the next party annual meeting in January 2017, when an election for a full two-year term will be held.

"I look forward to putting my name into consideration for the vice chair position," Mayberry said. "Last June I was appointed by the NHGOP executive committee and since then have been to 193 GOP events, listened more than I spoke and tried to be fair and helpful to everyone."

"2016 will be a watershed election and I want to give our candidates all the resources they need to win," he said.

Current state party chairwoman Jennifer Horn has come under fire from some Republicans, who even tried to circulate a petition to have her removed from the post over criticisms of Guinta and GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Tump. But the party chair position is not on the agenda until the January meeting.